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Summary

This is an exploration of modernism and postmodernism in regard to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reason.

"This book addresses a set of epistemic developments important throughout the academy. The range of contributors is excellent, and their collective prestige will attract more than a few readers all by itself. A further advantage is that the range of fields addressed makes the collection interesting to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines." -- John S. Nelson, University of Iowa

This book explores issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reason.

Robert F. Goodman is Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. Walter R. Fisher is Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

ForewordStephen Toulmin

IntroductionRobert F. Goodman

Part I. Fundamental Issues: Method, Values, Mind, and Self

1. Economics and the Limits of Scientific KnowledgeDonald N. McCloskey

2. The Truth/Value of JudgmentsBarbara Hernstein Smith

3. Is There a Problem in Explaning Cognitive Process?Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

4. The Dialogical SelfCharles Taylor

Part II. Reorientations in Social Science Inquiry

5. Causality and Causal Inference in the Study of OrganizationsDonald A. Schon

6. The Redesign of Ethnography after the Critique of Its RhetoricGeorge E. Marcus

7. Toward an Evolutionary Hermeneutics: The Case of WisdomMihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Part III. Values, Reason, and Responsibility

8. Representation without GroundsJane Flax

9. Narration, Knowledge, and the Possibility of WisdomWalter R. Fisher

Part IV. Knowledge and Schema Theory

10. Bridging Cognition and KnowledgeHelen Couclelis

11. The Schema Theory of Minds: Implications for the Social SciencesMichael A. Arbib